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In Fig. 9.4, the results are shown of an experiment using a double (annexinA4-EYFP+ annexinA4-mCherry) transfected cell immediately after addition of the calcium ionophore ionomycin (top) and 5 min after application of ionomycin (bottom). Clearly visible is the diffuse localization of annexin A4 before relocation and the more structured localization (into membrane ruffles and filopodia) after relocation. More importantly, the EYFP fluorescence lifetime is quenched from 2.9 ns before translocation to... 

C. Parallel pore and solid diffusion (local equilibrium between pore and adsorbed phase) 16-76 (dcpi/dr)r=0 = 0, [(EpDpi + ppDsidni/dci)dcpi/dr]r=rp = kf (c -or (Cpi)r=rr = for no external resistance... 

To model a porous electrocatalyst we may consider a second type of mass transport (in addition to diffusion) locally within the electrode, i.e., a mass transport resistance between the electrode surface and the solution. This situation may arise, for example, when the electrode surface is covered by a thin layer of polymer electrolyte or as in a fuel cell electrode in which the electrocatalyst is also covered by a thin water layer. 

Tetanus occurs when Cl. tetani, ubiquitous in the soil and the faeces of herbivores, contaminates wounds, especially deep puncture-type lesions. These might be the result of a minor trauma such as a splinter, or a major one such as a motor vehicle accident. At these sites, tissue necrosis, and possibly also microbial growth, reduce the oxygen tension to allow this anaerobe to multiply. Its growth is accompanied by the production of a highly potent toxin that passes up peripheral nerves and diffuses locally within the central nervous system. The toxin has a strychnine-like action and affects normal function at the synapses. As the motor nerves of the brainstem are the shortest, the cranial nerves are the first affected, with twitches of the eyes and spasms of the jaw (lockjaw). 

Picturing Quantized Intramolecular Vibrational Energy Flow Action Diffusion, Localization, and Scaling... 

A second inversion occurs at a height of about 90 km, at the mesopause, between the mesosphere and thermosphere, the heating in the latter is mainly due to absorption of far-UV solar radiation by dissociation of N2 and O2. These temperatirre inversions separate the atmosphere into distinct reservoirs, since they act as barriers to convective mixing material passes between troposphere and stratosphere mainly by the relatively slow process of diffusion. Local temperature inversions also occur in the lower troposphere to form regional reservoirs in which pollutant chemicals can build up to high concentrations a well-known local inversion phenomenon of this sort is that which occurs at elevations ranging from 300 m to 2 km over the Los Angeles basin in Southern California. 

In order now to apply the preceding general considerations to a concrete but still relatively simple case, we shall discuss the Fe-Si-C system. We find here a situation in which a component can diffuse locally against its concentration gradient. This is known as up-hill diffusion Austenitic Fe-Si-C consists of a face-centered-cubic iron lattice with carbon on the interstitial sites. The silicon atoms are substituted on iron sites, and so the mobility of the silicon atoms is orders of magnitude smaller than that of the carbon atoms [22]. In Fig. 7-3 are shown the results of an experiment in which two iron cylinders with about the same carbon contents but with very different silicon contents were welded flush against one another and held for 13 days at 1050 °C. The experimental arrangement as well as the carbon concentration (iVc), the carbon activity (flc)> nd the silicon concentration (iVsi) the end of the experiment are shown. 

The diffusion of solid ions, atoms, or molecules through solid matrices, while seemingly not possible, can and does in fact take place. It does so by a mechanism akin to that which described liquid-phase diffusion Local density fluctuations lead to a momentary opening or vacancy into which a neighboring parhcle can displace itself (see Figure 3.1b). Thus, a diffusional flow occurs, which follows Pick s law, as do more conventional diffusional processes. 

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